AN EARTHLY PARADISE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10011, 8 June 1895, Page 5

AN EARTHLY PARADISE.

A somewhat interesting scientific expedition was recently undertaken by Dr EiseD, member of the Academy of Soiencrs ia San Francisco, aad the naturalist, Mr Frank Baelifc. They raade a journey to Southern California and the interior of Msxioo, and their observations and discoveries seem to be of importance. They declare Southern California to bo "an earthly Paradise," • but this enthusiastic generalisation is * rather discounted when they proceed to ] give minuto dotaila of the noxious and ' troublesome creatures that abound there, j In the course of tbeir travels, they I collected, it is aaid, forty thousand \ Insect 9of all kinds, among whioh were t three thousand no v epeoies. Staying in c Southern California for one month, a they discovered sixty new apeoies of ' beetles. On a journey to La Paz they J discovered now mountains, tyo peaks more than five thousand feet high, one Cl which they named Mount Mo] era and jj the other Troy or Peak, after members c: of the San Francisco Academy. In the J Tepeo mountains they found strange on animals, nmong them being a scorpion " jne inoh long, whose sting was deadly If 8i lot at once treated with antidotes. This B loorpion is called " alsoran," and the „ lativcß say that once about sixty soldiers o f who campod near a oolouy of, the Ot ireatures wero attacked by them, and tot a single man escaped death, an biother nasty creature is a minute PT' nseot, thin enough to cree > through a §'] leodle's eye, whose bite causes great bo wellit'ga. Sptiara more tliuii two R * achos lon •, with hairy feet, wore the at aatroyers of butterflies and other W iseoto. They weave nets from one tree a another, catching thousands of Da iseots. After reading this catalogue .* f lnseot peats the conclusion is in,

, evitable that Southern California is rid] a perfect Eden— that it ia o verl " earthly " Psradise indeed. $